The Eulogy by Marian Brooks

“Caroline Benton was a pointy woman; tall, all elbows and knees. Even her lips appeared to be crisp at the edges. Her tongue was a skewer you’d want to avoid.” Albert often fantasized himself reciting these words as part of her eulogy. He smiled. It was his truth after all. But his mother remained stubbornly alive and breathing fire in a posh region of Cleveland Heights.

“It’s a tragedy to lose a child,” said Caroline at his funeral, “even a viper like Albert.”

Recently retired, Marian Brooks is just beginning to write short fiction. She graduated from the U of P (BA English Lit) and Villanova University (MS Counseling). Marian worked as a psychotherapist for twenty years and as a research assistant for the past fifteen.